Re: Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Scarletdown wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 01:07 -0400, Kai wrote:
>
> > I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or
> > some other form of linux on it.
> > Details:
> > CPU: Pentium I
> > HD: ~700MB
> > RAM: 16MB
> > 2 PC Card slots, but some newer cards (such as wireless cards) do not fit
> > Linksys EtherFast PC Card
> > A wireless router, however I can not seem to set up a Windows network on it
> > A Sony Vaio CD-RW drive PC Card
> > an external bootable floppy drive on a special floppy port
> > A working dock with parallel, serial, PS/2 and monitor ports
> >
> > I can boot and install from a large stack of floppys (20-25 disks),
> > but I want to install from a CD or network and choose certain
> > packages. I can access the CD during installation, and after install,
> > but I can't boot from it, even using a Smart Boot Manager floppy. I
> > want to install any base packages (preferably ash, not bash), and I
> > want to use Xfce or IceWM-lite as a GUI, because the computer is so
> > limited.
>
>
> The simplest way to get started is to get an adapter so you can plug the
> hard drive into the IDE controller of a desktop computer that can boot

Can Debian run in 16MB of RAM?

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Mike
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